When something goes wrong, our first instinct is to fix it. Stop the bleeding. Patch the hole. Just make it go away. We are good at jumping right into action on the first and most immediate solution that pops into mind. And we often muster up considerable creativity and ingenuity in developing work-arounds and short-term solutions.

Many of us suffer from email overload. Between e-marketing campaigns, auto-subscribe newsletters, and rampant abuse of the “reply all” option, it’s not uncommon to receive several hundred messages a day –- often across multiple email accounts. Read on to learn how I helped one client reclaim control over and start managing his personal inbox once again.

For this first blog post of 2019, I’m going meta: I’ve written a case study about applying my own organizational processes to my own business, and how I came up with a new system for planning, developing, and writing blog and social media posts.

There are many different ways to “be organized,” and the word “organized” means different things to different people. In order to identify the “right” approach, you need ask yourself some questions to figure out what problem you are trying to solve and define your short and long-term goals are for whatever system you put in place!